The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
